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WHITE GRUB INSECTS -- BOGUS METHODS OF CONTROL -- 2010 04 15

What follows is an exampleof the CARNAGE inflictedby Environmental-Terroristattacks against theGreen Space Industry

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White Grubs Ruining Metro Lawns

Crows, Raccoons, Skunks Dig Up Turf To Get Tender Juicy Morsels

April 15th, 2010

Damian Inwood,

The Province

Thousands of Lower Mainland lawns are LONG GONE, thanks to the European Chafer Beetle, an underground bug that’s chomping its way across the region.

[ Lower Mainland is the name of the region surrounding Vancouver, British Columbia. ]

And millions of the chubby, white, 2.5–centimetre Grubs ― enough to supply reality–TV show « Survivor » for a lifetime ― are to blame.

According to Ian Wraight, Owner of Surrey–based Nutri–Lawn ―

« This thing has become a major disaster. We’re now up to DAMAGE in the MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. You see lawns that look like a roto–tiller attacked them. »

The problem is not the Beetles themselves, but the Grubs that grow from the eggs they lay.

They eat grass roots, and then form a tasty snack for raccoons, skunks, and crows, which dig them out of the ground.

Wraight said the infestation has spread from Vancouver, Burnaby, and New Westminster, to Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam, and has crossed the Fraser River into Delta.

So far, the problem has NOT spread to any farmland production areas, said Tracy Hueppelsheuser, an Entomologist for British Columbia’s Plant Health Unit in Abbotsford.

Ontario farmers have suffered losses because of the beetle, Hueppelsheuser said.

According to Hueppelsheuser ―

« Crops listed as damaged by[ European ] Chafer include winter wheat, corn ginseng, high–bush blueberries, pasture, and hay. These crops are all grown in southern British Columbia, and chafer presents a serious risk to British Columbia’s horticulture industry. It has potential for great damage. »

Urban communities must be aggressive in trying to stop the spread of the beetle, she said.

Turf Managers, Government Officials, as well as the public at large, may be under the MISTAKEN IMPRESSION that there exists a vast array of biological–natural–ecological PRACTICES for controlling White Grubs.

Overall, these practices are mostly or totally INEFFECTIVE for controlling White Grubs.

Sadly, the promotion of these PRACTICES was influential in legislating prohibitions on conventional pest control products.

Such a recommendation, in either verbal or written form, becomes a VIOLATION of federal law.

As such, common household soap is an unregistered product.

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Spiking

BOGUS ADVICE ―

White Grubs can be « controlled » by the practice of passing a roller with spikes on turf, or by performing mechanical aeration. [ ?!?!? ]

COMMENTARY ―

LAME–BRAINED and SILLY. Need we say more.

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Topdressing

BOGUS ADVICE ―

The practice of TOPDRESSING a thin layer of soil over the entire turf surface will help prevent the invasion of damaging insects. [ ?!?!? ]

COMMENTARY ―

This practice is advantageous only for those who supply topdress materials and services.

Overall, the practice of topdressing is INEFFECTIVE, and UNRELIABLE, for controlling White Grubs.

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Biological Pest Control ― Entomo–Pathogenic Nematode Products

Commercial Entomo–Pathogenic Nematode products CANNOT be consistently considered as a true alternative to conventional insecticides, since insect pests, like White Grub larvae, are often only SUPPRESSED and NOT CONTROLLED by Nematodes.

Furthermore, not every species of Entomo–Pathogenic Nematodes will be equally effective against a particular insect pest.

Laboratory and field tests tend to indicate that the BEST species of Nematodes provide only MODERATE CONTROL, or SUPPRESSION, where up to fifty to sixty–five per cent of the damaging insect population is killed.

Other Nematode species have been show to provide INEFFECTIVE CONTROL, with SUPPRESSION levels as low as twenty–five to forty per cent.

Research reports and practical field experience have indicated the expected product EFFICACY for the control of White Grub larvae ―

THERE ARE NO VALID ALTERNATIVES TO CONVENTIONAL PEST CONTROL PRODUCTS !

Government Officials, the Green Space Industry, and the public were assured by Enviro–Maniac–Activists that so–called safe and effective Green Alternatives were already available to replace conventional pest control products.

Wrong !

The Green Alternatives are BOGUS, LESS EFFECTIVE, and STUNNINGLY EXPENSIVE !

VIRTUALLY ALL Green Alternative Products are BOGUS, and have negatives ranging from almost TOTAL INEFFECTIVENESS except under very specific circumstances, to a question about their TOXICITY.

The Enviro–Maniacs did not know what they were talking about.

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Carnage on Green Space Workers

Without the use of conventional pest control products, many jurisdictions have had to resort to the back–breaking and agonizing job of WEED PULLING BY HAND !

The CARNAGE of Enviro–Maniac–Basterds is converting the professional labour force of the Green Space Industry into a group of mere COTTON–PICKERS !

Without effective weed control products, they are required to crawl on lawns on their hands and knees pulling weeds manually.

Consequently, Government Officials enlist the help of UNRELIABLE resident VOLUNTEERS, most of whom are women, elderly, and unemployed.

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Carnage in Municipal Green Spaces

Consequently, the prohibition of pest control products has RUINED municipal Green Spaces in both Canada and America !

Because of the prohibition imposed in many jurisdictions, Green Spaces are over–run by invasive weeds, and LOOK LIKE GARBAGE DUMPS !

The MUNICIPAL CARNAGE of implementing and enforcing NEEDLESS, SENSELESS, and MALICIOUS prohibition of pest control products is costing from 200,000 dollars to 1,000,000 dollars PER YEAR for EACH municipality !

So far, the MUNICIPAL CARNAGE of PROHIBITION–ENVIRO–TYRANNY across Canada has cost the public well over 30,000,000 dollars.

OVER 30,000,000 DOLLARS !

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Carnage in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

For municipalities like Surrey, British Columbia, the cost of prohibition city has been estimated at 1,000,000 dollars ANNUALLY to manage weeds without the use of chemicals.

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Carnage in Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.

In cities like Lawrence, Kansas, Gov-ernment Officials are now reverting back to conventional pest control since residents are no longer interested to volunteer their time in a losing battle against weeds.

Although the parks and recreation department of Lawrence, Kansas, showed it spends less than 10,000 dollars per year for pesticides, Enviro–Maniac–Activists had lobbied the city's commissioners to convert all of the city's 52 parks to pesticide–free maintenance by 2009.

However, a cost analysis by the Parks and Recreation staff estimated that the city would have to spend 213,000 dollars for equipment; 116,000 dollars annually for staff; and 95,000 dollars annually for materials to achieve that goal.

Pesticide–Free Parks FAILED !

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Carnage in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.

In 2004, the City of Portland capitulated under pressure from the Environmental–Terror–Organization called Northwest Coalition For Alternatives To Pesticides ( N.C.A.P. ).

Both Portland and N.C.A.P. recognized that so–called Green Alternatives were bogus, and almost totally ineffective.

The only solutions were the huge cost in paid labour and volunteer work as back–breaking weed–pickers, and potentially hazardous flame–throwers.

Ultimately, the City of Portland was only able to afford Pesticide–Free Parks through the use of Enviro–Maniac–Volunteers.

Originally, 244 volunteers put in a combined 1,374 hours removing weeds at three parks. The availability of Enviro–Maniac–Volunteers was UNRELIABLE, and SEVERELY DECLINED over a three year period.

In the first year, turn–out was low, but peaked 60 hours for one work party. By the third year, the most attended was a mere 12 hours.

When using conventional, scientifically safe, and effective weed control products, Enviro–Maniacs at N.C.A.P. estimated that an average five–acre neighbourhood park in Portland cost 371 dollars per year to keep the weeds out.

Pesticide–Free Parks in the City of Port-land, on the other hand, came with the exorbitant cost of 3,621 dollars in annual maintenance costs, and 9,455 dollars in start–up costs for each new park.

High costs were required to pay parks department employees to haul weeds collected by volunteers, and to inspect the parks to make sure weeds were under control.

Another issue was the extraneous carbon emissions from cars used by volunteers driving to the parks to do the weeding.

Pesticide–Free Parks FAILED !

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ENVIRO–MANIACS DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT !

It is abundantly evident, and not surprising, that NOT A SINGLE Environmental–Maniac–Activist has ANY recognized expertise, training or background in matters concerning pest control products or the management of Green Spaces !

The opinions of Enviro–Maniac–Activists in matters concerning turf management and pest control are TOTALLY VALUELESS and UTTERLY WORTHLESS.

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Environmental–Terror MUST END !

Enviro–Maniac–Basterds

Get off our grASS

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William H. Gathercole and Norah G

National Organization Responding Against Huje that TERRORIZE, HARM, and THREATEN the Green Space Industry (NORAHG)

Force Of Nature presents THE WHOLE TRUTH FROM AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE from National Organization Responding Against Huje that seek to harm the Green Space Industry (NORAHG). It is a series of Reports destined for the Green Space Industry, the Environmental Terror Movement, Governments, and the Media, nationwide across Canada, the United States, and overseas. The information presented in Force Of Nature has been developed for the education and entertainment of the reader by providing a sequence of historical events WITH COMMENTARY. The neutrality of these Reports might be disputed.

Huje is a term used to describe Enviro Maniac Activists that routinely concoct FEAR MONGERING, FRAUDULENT LIES, MISCONCEPTIONS, COERCION, THREATS, DECEPTIONS, TERROR, and PARANOID CONSPIRACIES that are DESIGNED to SCAM and DECEIVE the public into believing that families are in some NON–EXISTENT danger with conventional pest control products. Huje also SCAM and DECEIVE Government Officials into the NEEDLESS, SENSELESS, and MALICIOUS prohibition of FEDERALLY LEGAL, SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE, TOTALLY IRREPLACEABLE, and ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSABLE conventional pest control products.

All information, excerpts, and pictures contained in this Report were found somewhere on the Internet, and may be considered in the public domain, serving one of the following purposes ― archive, education, promotion, publicity, or press release. The events, characters, companies, and organizations, depicted in this Report are not always fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, may not be coincidental. Force Of Nature is TOTALLY INDEPENDENT of any trade association or business operating within the Green Space Industry. Don’t thank us. It’s a public service. And we are glad to do it.

Force Of Nature, and its various incarnations, is the brainchild of William H. Gathercole and his entourage. Mr. Gathercole is a principal FOUNDER of the Modern Professional Lawn Care Industry in BOTH Ontario and Quebec. He holds a degree in Horticulture from the UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, and another pure and applied science degree from McGILL UNIVERSITY. He has worked in virtually all aspects of the Green Space Industry, including GOLF, PROFESSIONAL LAWN CARE, and CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, and has served in public affairs, workplace safety, and environmental compliance. Mr. Gathercole has supervised, consulted, programmed, and/or overseen the successful and safe execution of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of pest control applications in the urban landscape. He has trained, instructed, and consulted with THOUSANDS of turf managers and technicians. Mr. Gathercole has also been an agricultural agronomist. For many years, Mr. Gathercole was a contributing columnist for TURF & Recreation Magazine, Canada’s Turf and Grounds Maintenance Authority. Mr. Gathercole is now retired from Force Of Nature, although his name continues to appear as the FOUNDER. Mr. Gathercole is personally credited for crafting the Golf Industry Exception Status, that endures to this day. He is also the creator of the signs that are now used for posting after application. His vast knowledge of our long journey with Environmental Issues is UNDENIABLE ― hopefully ! For FIFTEEN YEARS, the strategies designed and implemented by Mr. Gathercole and his colleagues guaranteed the control of Environmental Terror for the entire Modern Green Space Industry across Canada. Mr. Gathercole’s involvement in Environmental Issues reached a fevered pitch in the 1990s, when he orchestrated, with his colleagues, legal action against the Forces of Environmental Evil in the Town of Hudson, Quebec. Mr. Gathercole is the ONLY TRUE RELIABLE WITNESS of the Hudson Affair.

Mr. Gathercole and his entourage have followed the evolution of ENVIRONMENTAL TERRORISM for over a quarter century. Through Force Of Nature, Enviro Maniac Activist Huje are identified on the basis of their statements, activities, affiliations, and whereabouts. Even though each Enviro Maniac Culprit is a misguided adversary, each still deserves our respect. The use of the terms Maniac, Culprit, Terrorist, or Basterd are not accusations of any legal wrong doing. Force Of Nature is simply holding Enviro Maniac Activists accountable for conspiring to change public policies that TERRORIZE, HARM, and THREATEN the Green Space Industry. Their pretentious prohibitionist rants have created LOSS OF REVENUES, BUSINESS FAILURES, BANKRUPTCY, and UNEMPLOYMENT, inflicting DESPAIR and DESTITUTION for THOUSANDS of hapless victims throughout the Green Space Industry. The DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE of Maniac Culprit Terrorist Basterd Huje is viewed as a form of TERROR, HARM, and THREAT against the Green Space Industry.